forms and apostrophe's

[mlindal]

I am trying to get a form to search the FM database and having trouble remember what to do about apostrophe's.

Whenever we search on a word like: l'étude I get no results using the PHP form.

On the list.php page I see the form is adding '' so when I print_r($_REQUEST) I see: l'étude

ok fine - so I then use stripslashes to get it back to l'étude and put to a FMFind() on the new data and....

no results

However when searching for the same string in filemaker we get the results.

What do I need to do? I have a feeling it is something to do with Filemaker 6 and the encoding (UTF-8) vs Latin, but what can I do?

Thoughts please...

[mlindal]

I have made some progress, but think there is a way to do this without need the following 'gymnastics'.

$badcharacters = array("'", "é");

$var = str_replace($badcharacters, "@", $var);

This used the filemaker wildcard '@' and found the data I was looking for.

Keep your ideas coming though if you have a better way.

Thanks

[mlindal]

Not sure if anyone is still using this form but here is an update:

The stripslash() and strreplace() to get the bad characters to '@' wildcard symbols seems to be the best options.

I did some checking on the UTF-8 vs ISO-8559-1 encoding of the pages and they do handle the forms different.

UTF-8 takes the eacute (é) and turns it to: %C3%A9

ISO-8559-1 makes é = E9

interesting to see the html entities, but to nail this down and cover all holes may require some extra massaging of the data before it is sent to filemaker...